“Sometimes the weather wouldn’t be much fun, but we’d go out and have a laugh,” Forrest said.

Soon after Forrest arrived at USD, he received the news that his father had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Forrest went home for the summer, and Graeme Forrest died in July at the age of 49.

Grant Forrest was scheduled to play in the Scottish Amateur at Royal Dornoch in early August. Though his mind was elsewhere, he pressed on. Remarkably, Forrest ended up taking the title in the match-play tournament, scoring a 9-and-7 rout in the final. It was the Amateur’s most lopsided victory since Colin Montgomerie’s triumph 25 years earlier.

His mother, Audrey, and sister, Alisa, 12, were there, crying at the edge of the green when he finished.